-တွေ

See also: တွေး, and တွေ့

Burmese

Pronunciation

(colloquial)

• Phonetic respellings: ဒေ, တေ
• IPA^(key): /dè/, /tè/
• Romanization: MLCTS: twe • ALA-LC: tve • BGN/PCGN: de/te • Okell: tei/tei

(careful)

• Phonetic respellings: ဒွေ, တွေ
• IPA^(key): /dwè/, /twè/
• Romanization: MLCTS: twe • ALA-LC: tve • BGN/PCGN: dwe/twe • Okell: twei/twei

Usage notes

The voiced variant /d(w)è/ occurs after vowels and /ɴ/; the voiceless variant /t(w)è/ after /ʔ/.

Suffix

-တွေ • (-twe)

1. (colloquial) indicates a plural (with a count noun)
2. lots of (with a mass noun)

Synonyms

• -များ (-mya:) (formal, literary)
• -တို့ (-tui.) (formal, literary)

References

• “-တွေ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
• “-တွေ” in Burmese/Myanmar Dictionary of Grammatical Forms (Routledge 2001, →ISBN), by John Okell and Anna Allott.